I did not realize Pocket Tanks was a derivative work.
Discussion of the genre’s legacy is not complete without Artillery Duel for the Atari VCS 2600.
https://www.atarimania.com/game-atari-2600-vcs-artillery-due...
Tank games like this have a long heritage. Scorch is probably the pinnacle, but I played primitive versions of this all the way back on an Apple ][.
GORILLA.BAS is arguably part of the lineage too, somewhere in there.
Scorched Tanks on Amiga was the real derivative work, Pocket Tanks was that author's more modern update
Worms is as well. It’s an entire genre: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artillery_game
I like Hedgewars which is an open source game similar to Worms but with hedgehogs. It is available as package in most Linux distros but also on Windows, Mac and FreeBSD. I believe it is available on Steam as well.
So is Scorched Earth, it's preceded (at least) by "Tank Wars" (aka BOMB.EXE) by Kenny Morse from 1990:
https://archive.org/details/TankWars_274
BOMB.EXE was my first.
Haha, same
Discussion of the genre’s legacy is not complete without Artillery Duel for the Atari VCS 2600.
https://www.atarimania.com/game-atari-2600-vcs-artillery-due...
Tank games like this have a long heritage. Scorch is probably the pinnacle, but I played primitive versions of this all the way back on an Apple ][.
GORILLA.BAS is arguably part of the lineage too, somewhere in there.
Scorched Tanks on Amiga was the real derivative work, Pocket Tanks was that author's more modern update
Worms is as well. It’s an entire genre: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artillery_game
I like Hedgewars which is an open source game similar to Worms but with hedgehogs. It is available as package in most Linux distros but also on Windows, Mac and FreeBSD. I believe it is available on Steam as well.
So is Scorched Earth, it's preceded (at least) by "Tank Wars" (aka BOMB.EXE) by Kenny Morse from 1990:
https://archive.org/details/TankWars_274
BOMB.EXE was my first.
Haha, same